April 5, 2011: “Moment of Blather” (Baseline Scenario). Note to the Times: I will do David Brooks’s job for half of whatever you are paying him now.

November 14, 2010: “Dear Mr. President” (Baseline Scenario). Why extending the “middle-class” tax cuts is bad for the middle class (let alone extending the tax cuts for the rich). Later, when the deal was done, I said that Obama was “drawing moderate-Republican lines in the sand.”

October 24, 2010: “Food and Finance” (Baseline Scenario). Why the food industry is like, and perhaps even more dangerous than, the finance industry.

August 23, 2010: “Housing in Ten Words” (Baseline Scenario). Housing is a bad investment, and has always been a bad investment. You have to evaluate the investment before you find out if you’ll get lucky, just like you have to evaluate the football coach’s decision to go for it on fourth down before you find out what happens. (I talked about this a bit more on Here and Now.)

May 26, 2010: “Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts” (Baseline Scenario). “Obama and Geithner should know better than to expect gratitude from a bunch of narcissistic, delusional crybabies. And in that sense, both parties to this toxic relationship — the Wall Street bankers and the Obama administration officials — deserve each other.”

May 4, 2010: “Why Do Harvard Kids Go To Wall Street?” (Baseline Scenario). “It’s easier to think that underwriting new debt offerings really is saving the world than to think that you are underwriting new debt offerings, because of the money, instead of saving the world.”

April 16, 2010: My appearance, with Simon, on Bill Moyers Journal. This is the first half, via YouTube.

April 12, 2010: “The Cover-Up” (Baseline Scenario). “The crisis happened because the banks wanted unregulated financial markets and went out and got them — only it turned out they were not as smart as they thought they were and blew themselves up. It was not an innocent accident.” See also “Pack of Fools,” the next day’s post.

December 21, 2009: “If Wall Street Ran the Airlines” (Baseline Scenario). The funniest thing I have written since my mock press release nine years earlier about Ariba acquiring the local Mongolian barbecue restaurant because of its cooking “platform.”

November 11, 2009: “Low Savings, Bad Investments” (Baseline Scenario). Why we face a retirement savings crisis, and the only thing that might save us from such a crisis is Social Security, not private saving.

October 27, 2009: “The Home-Buyer Tax Credit: Throwing Good Money After Bad” (The Hearing). We always talk about subsidizing housing, but why do we want to push up the price of a basic necessity? We’re just benefiting people who own homes (including me) at the cost of people who don’t own them.

August 5, 2009: “You Do Not Have Health Insurance” (Baseline Scenario). I really believe that. You have employer-subsidized health care, for the duration of your employment, which means you could lose it when you need it most. Unless, of course, you have government health insurance, like Medicare.

March 2009 (online March 26): “The Quiet Coup,” in The Atlantic. This was the article that brought the “American oligarchy” theme to the mainstream, with over one million page views. (Simon got the byline because they wanted us to use the first-person voice when talking about his IMF experience.)

October 4, 2008: The beginning of Financial Crisis for Beginners, the series of posts that was my first significant contribution to the discussion of the financial crisis.

September 23, 2008: “A Hedge Fund Like No Other,” The Washington Post. Actually, I don’t consider this a particularly good article, but it is the one that kicked things off. I discussed it with Simon on Saturday, we submitted it to the Post on Monday, and I skipped torts (with permission from the professor) on Monday afternoon to do the final edits. Because print op-eds are limited to eight hundred words, most of my original ideas ended up in “The Price of Salvation,” which the FT ran online on Wednesday.